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Cheesehead is a nickname (sometimes used derogatorily) referring to a person from either Wisconsin or the Netherlands, referring to the large volume of cheese production in those locales.
"Cheesehead" is also the name of a brand of hat shaped like a large wedge of cheese (generally made out of a light plastic or foam), primarily worn by fans of the NFL team Green Bay Packers at football games.
The original display of a "cheesehead" hat was at a Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago White Sox game in 1987 when the Brewers started the season 13-0. It was handmade out of foam, painted yellow. The wearer of that original foam hat then had the idea of starting a business selling cheeseheads hats. The "Cheesehead" trademark is owned by Foamation, Inc. of St. Francis, Wisconsin, which began manufacture of the wearable, foam cheesehead in 1987.
At Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, cheese is aged and sold in round steel cans; this has spawned its own version of the cheesehead hat inspired by the original.
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